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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.27,0:00:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey Canada, I'm Wab Kinew;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.20,0:00:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I'm not your boyfriend,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.27,0:00:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I wouldn't mind being your man on the side
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.14,0:00:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for this thing to work,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.34,0:00:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's five things you're going to have to have to stop saying about my people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.11,0:00:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First thing: alcohol.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.85,0:00:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The big thing that separates us here isn't the alcohol,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.55,0:00:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the poverty.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.100,0:00:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when a non-Native person passes out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.22,0:00:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they do it at a curling club,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.45,0:00:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a Nickelback concert.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.09,0:00:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when a Native person does,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.42,0:00:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they do it on the street,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.12,0:00:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is shameful, but oh-so comfortable.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.66,0:00:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there's this whole idea of get over it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.96,0:00:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, why don't you guys just get over it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.39,0:00:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I am over it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.59,0:00:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dad was raped in a residential school by a nun.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.50,0:00:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm over it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.87,0:00:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it doesn't mean that we should forget it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.26,0:00:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, there's the long hair thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.30,0:00:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, some Aboriginal people do wear their hair long
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.78,0:00:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a symbol of cultural pride.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.61,0:00:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are the Natives beautiful long, straight hair.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.58,0:00:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a curly-haired Ojibwe such as myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.05,0:00:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hair clippers have been the greatest invention of the white man since the mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.26,0:00:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, I often hear this question:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.46,0:00:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are you guys doing with the seven billion dollars?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.86,0:01:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The seven billion dollars we give Indian Affairs--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.16,0:01:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are you guys doing with it?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.18,0:01:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.04,0:01:06.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that money has to pay for a population the same size as New Brunswick.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.15,0:01:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what New Brunswick spends on their population?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.47,0:01:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight billion dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.31,0:01:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet I never hear Canadians ask:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.24,0:01:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hey New Brunswick, what are you doing with your eight billion dollars?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.31,0:01:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, one of your favourites: taxes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.84,0:01:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guess what, I'm a Status Indian,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.74,0:01:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pay income tax, I pay sales tax,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.68,0:01:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I once even paid a land transfer tax.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.75,0:01:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ironic.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.16,0:01:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all part of a much larger stereotype:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.52,0:01:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Aboriginal people in Canada
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.29,0:01:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are getting a free ride.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.93,0:01:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hundred and forty years after the treaties,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.09,0:01:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're still waiting for the things that we were promised
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.06,0:01:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those agreements to share the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.23,0:01:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I ask you:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.47,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's really getting the free ride?